Sunday, October 01, 2006

Khmer America: The fellowship of the waterboard

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Recently the GOP legalized waterboarding. Today Crooked Timber provides us some historic context. The United States of America has joined th...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

How hot will it get? Hotter than ever.

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Another analysis of historical temperatures has come out. The Look has summarized the article and presented the graph . The graph is a bit h...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Cut and run? Ok, maybe limp.

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This is blackly funny. A GOP House candidate parrots Rove's tired 'cut and run' line, forgetting who his Democrat opponent is .....

Paul Graham: a big thinker in the world of software development

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A brilliant colleague of mine recently recommended I review some of the writings of Paul Graham , in particular a famous essay Hackers and P...

Avandia (rosiglitazone) for Rat Alzheimer's Prophylaxis?!

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I'm sure it's too late to buy stock in GlaxoSmithKline today, but it might be worth shorting it when disappointment sets in. This Fu...

The Hall of Shame: 6 Democrats join

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Histories Hall of Shame will include the Bush administration and all but two every GOP Senators in office today. It will also include six ...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

What DeLong reads

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DeLong responds to yet another decrepit journalist decrying the blogosphere. Those articles are both ridiculous and boring, I'm surprise...

Guardians of the Enlightenment: Join SEFORA, promote the rationalist bill of rights

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SEFORA is special interest group -- for scientists, engineers, and rationalists. Non-partisan, but it's obvious what's inspired them...

We knew what was happening. The Fall of America, part VII.

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If you’re a Chinese high school student of 2018 reading this as part of your essay on “how did 21st century America betray its ideals”, you ...

FolioViews and ICD-9: a billion dollar tale never told

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The more decrepit one becomes, the more "odd stories never told" one accumulates. This is one of those stories, a tale of a seemin...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Answering the stupid question: what would YOU do in Iraq

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Apparently in right wingnut circles and spineless journalists there's a call for "democrats" (meaning rationalists in this con...
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The Fall of Microsoft?

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I've proclaimed the Fall of Microsoft before. The last time was OS/2 3.x, which was so clearly superior to both Win 98 and Win NT that i...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Brer Clinton: the rage returns

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Incredibly, for it's surely suicidal, right wingnuts are allegedly trying to resurrect the shade of William Clinton. This is a bit like ...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Grief

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A mother's son dies at war. She tells the story of her grief . It is in grief that we are most akin.
Sunday, September 24, 2006

System failure: No Contact orders in Minnesota

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Another story of a women killed by boyfriend/husband. The sad story didn't suggest much that could be done differently, until near the v...